How much do private coaches help the student?

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Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:01:33 +0000

We never hired a monologue coach for our S because we couldn’t afford it. However, he did talk to his high school drama teacher about monologues, and the teacher was willing to hear S’s monologue if he wanted to run it by him.

However, S did a 5 week summer program (which is why we couldn’t afford an additional monologue coach - LOL!), and he was able to read plays and get advice about monologues there, too.

So it is possible to get help from those folks right around you! But I will say this - the advice can be short-sighted at times. S can sing and does musicals at school, but only wants to act in college. He got suggestions from his voice teacher and his musical director at school to audition for MT, and what songs to pick for it. It was uncomfortable for him to keep saying he only wanted straight acting.